Acrobat X Pro - Page Scaling Document Property

I have an archive of 1000's of PDF files and I want to change the Page Scaling property in each of them from "Default" to "None." I would like to automate this process, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do this with the tools provided.
Without automation this is done by choosing File > Properties > Advanced tab > Page Scaling drop-down. When the file is saved this set the default print-time page-scaling option to None. My operators are having a hard time remembering to set that option when these files are printed and since this can actually be saved with each PDF file I would like to fine a way to automate setting this option for all of my PDF files.
I am not a javascript programer, but I'm pretty clever. Does anyone have any input to offer on this option? Googling has led me nowhere.

You can't set this property with JS directly. It might be possible through
a Preflight profile, but I wasn't able to find it there, either.
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